Ben Carson Thinks Joseph Built the Pyramids.... WTF?

[Brian4Liberty]

At risk of repeating myself, Carson's biggest problem is that he likes to run off at the mouth.

 

[TaftFan]

Did you check Google? LOL!

I still don't think you understand how the internet works. Just because something is on the internet does not make it true.

 

[Ronin Truth]

I still don't think you understand how the internet works. Just because something is on the internet does not make it true.

Who claimed otherwise? I'll take that as a 'no', you didn't.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

On the positive side for Carson, this means that they haven't been able to dig up any affairs or sexual harassment accusations.

 

[timosman]

At risk of repeating myself, Carson's biggest problem is that he likes to run off at the mouth.

He is an idiot on anything except brain surgery. Not sure why people give him a pass on everything.

 

[Ronin Truth]

He is an idiot on anything except brain surgery. Not sure why people give him a pass on everything.

Not a lawyer nor a politician is a HUGE plus to me.

 

[jllundqu]

How a man (or woman) thinks is very important in evaluating them. His "theory" about the pyramids tells me he may be a brilliant surgeon, but is intellectually retarded when it comes to basic scientific evidence-based discoveries.

 

[TaftFan]

Who claimed otherwise? I'll take that as a 'no', you didn't.

I did.

 

[jllundqu]

And yes, if someone running for POTUS honestly believed the world was 6000 years old, despite countless scientific discoveries to the contrary, it would disqualify them from office, IMO.

And before this thread deteriorates into religious quackery and is forced into the PEACE THRU RELIGION sub... please discuss this in the context of the presidential race, in the spirit of the OP.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

And yes, if someone running for POTUS honestly believed the world was 6000 years old, despite countless scientific discoveries to the contrary, it would disqualify them from office, IMO.

And before this thread deteriorates into religious quackery and is forced into the PEACE THRU RELIGION sub... please discuss this in the context of the presidential race, in the spirit of the OP.

I think it's a wacky idea too, but the Constitution doesn't say you have to believe or disbelieve anything to be POTUS. According to the parchment, there aren't many significant requirements besides being more or less sentient.

 

[jllundqu]

I think it's a wacky idea too, but the Constitution doesn't say you have to believe or disbelieve anything to be POTUS. According to the parchment, there aren't many significant requirements besides being more or less sentient.

I agree there are no requirements, but it doesn't change the fact that it reveals how the man thinks. And I choose to use that in my evaluation of a person's judgment and ability.

 

[Ronin Truth]

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -- H L Mencken, Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)

 

[opinionatedfool]

It's entirely possible. I've done alot of research on the pyramids and there isn't actually much or any evidence to say they are burial chambers. Those were theories created back in the day, but without evidence to support them.

 

[hells_unicorn]

And yes, if someone running for POTUS honestly believed the world was 6000 years old, despite countless scientific discoveries to the contrary, it would disqualify them from office, IMO.

That's fine, I think anybody who thinks that mankind are simply primates with less hair shouldn't be president, the Russians and most of Eastern Europe got burned on that one pretty bad for much of the 20th century.

 

[wizardwatson]

I think the pyramids were just something to keep the mundanes enslaved and occupied with something to do.

Kind of like vBulletin.

 

[opinionatedfool]

It's entirely possible. I've done alot of research on the pyramids and there isn't actually much or any evidence to say they are burial chambers. Those were theories created back in the day, but without evidence to support them.

http://www.scottcreighton.co.uk/PDF-Files/Ten Facts that Contradict the Pyramid Tomb Theory.pdf

 

[Ronin Truth]

I'm becoming a fan of the ancient global power transmission grid node theory. Why not? Old pyramids are all over the world.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

I'm becoming a fan of the ancient global power transmission grid node theory. Why not? Old pyramids are all over the world.

THIS IS THE TRUTH!!!!

 

[jmdrake]

While I do believe that the Egyptians had to have developed a storage system in order to preserve food during the 7 year famine period, it's a pretty massive stretch to argue that this is what the pyramids were built for, particularly since it's pretty clear that they were being used as royal sepulchers. It's pure speculation at best to assume that they were built for another purpose and then converted into sepulchers later, though it is stipulated that whatever means of preserving grain during this time period would have been overseen by Joseph.

The problem with this is that regardless of whether or not Carson is right or wrong, most people in this country find stuff like this ridiculous and Carson will probably suffer badly among both more orthodox-leaning Evangelicals and skeptics alike as more questions are raised about his SDA background. I've always been confident that Carson would not be the nominee, and this may well be the beginning of a laundry list of problems that will sink him.

There's a lot of evidence that the great pyramid was not a tomb. Other pyramids yes, but not that one. And the grainery theory has been kicked around by people as far back as the middle ages and has continued until today. The truth is nobody knows exactly why the great pyramid was built. There is no SDA stance on the issue though. I believe 9/11 was orchestrated by rogue elements within the U.S. government but that's not an official SDA position either.

For more on "non tomb" theories for the great pyramid see:

http://www.gizapyramid.com/articles/theories-why.htm

 

[jmdrake]

And yes, if someone running for POTUS honestly believed the world was 6000 years old, despite countless scientific discoveries to the contrary, it would disqualify them from office, IMO.

And before this thread deteriorates into religious quackery and is forced into the PEACE THRU RELIGION sub... please discuss this in the context of the presidential race, in the spirit of the OP.